Alcatel secures EUR 20 mln contracts from VNPT, MobiFone
Alcatel-Lucent has signed contracts with Vietnamese communications providers MobiFone and VNPT worth a total of EUR 20 million. Alcatel-Lucent and VNPT also signed a cooperation agreement to establish an IP Excellence Center in Hanoi.
MobiFone awarded Alcatel-Lucent a contract to provide GSM base stations to improve the coverage, capacity and bandwidth of the company's mobile networks in the Northern, Central and Southern regions of Vietnam. Under Alcatel-Lucent will deliver end-to-end GSM/GPRS/EDGE systems, including the Twin TRX, a recent addition to Alcatel-Lucent's portfolio that doubles base-station capacity.
Alcatel-Lucent will provide VNPT with its Optical Multi-Service Node (OMSN) system to interconnect base stations and serve as mobile backhaul system for the mobile network in the Northern region of country. VNPT and Alcatel-Lucent also signed a cooperation agreement to establish an IP Excellence Center in Hanoi which will host the expertise and resources required to support IP transformation and broadband deployment in VNPT networks across Vietnam. The IP Excellence Center will be located in Alcatel Networks Systems Vietnam, the joint venture between Alcatel-Lucent and VNPT.
Telecom Paper (.nl) - October 25, 2007.
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